Primitive ideals in quantum SL(3) and GL(3)

Explicit generating sets are found for all primitive ideals in the generic quantized coordinate rings of the 3x3 special and general linear groups over an arbitrary algebraically closed field. (Previously, generators were only known up to certain localizations.) The generating sets form polynormal regular sequences, from which it follows that all primitive factor algebras of these quantized coordinate rings are Auslander-Gorenstein and Cohen-Macaulay.